Thursday, March 25, 2010

These lemon cakes would be perfect to serve at a party or just to your family for dessert. I found this recipe in a Woman's Day magazine from March in 2009. Seeing these will make you wish that dessert came first! This recipe yielded 12 miniature bundt cakes. If you make this recipe in a regular bundt pan you can reduce by half the amount of sugar glaze you use.

This is my Foodie Friday Entry at Designs By Gollum. You can see other wonderful food at Foodie Friday here:

In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, lemon zest and juice with mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until blended. With mixer on low, alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk until batter is smooth. Scrape into prepared pan; level top with spatula.

Bake approximately 20 minutes (if using mini pans and 45-50 minutes if using regular pan) until a wooden pick inserted in cakes comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile make the sugar glaze:

Whisk glaze ingredients in a small bowl just until combined (sugar will not be totally dissolved). Invert cakes from pan onto rack; place rack over a baking sheet. Brush glaze all over hot cakes until absorbed (sugar crystals will be evident). Cool completely. Transfer cakes to a serving plate and cover. Let cakes rest several hours or overnight, before serving. Store cake covered at room temperature up to 4 days.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I am a sucker for Jelly Beans, especially Jelly Bellys! When I was six I went to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield California! It was AMAZING! But the thing that I remember most about it was the giant picture made out of jelly beans! That was pretty cool, even though I don't really even remember what the picture was of, I think it might have been a person. Jelly Beans are really great!!!!! Come join me at Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday. You can link to it here:

Spring is here! And what does that mean? It means easter is on it's way! I love Easter...actually I love all the holidays, but Easter is a favorite of mine! I love the Easter egg hunts, and the easter bunny!(Although I used to be afraid of the ones at the Mall!) So I hope you like my Easter tablescape!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Today the fifth book of Fablehaven came out! I am on page 78 currently! It is already sucking me in..... I didn't even want to put it down to do this post! I am sooo obsessed with these books! My other book favorites are: Percy Jackson and The Olympians series, The Darkest Powers Series, and I also really like the book Ella Enchanted! Yipee for the author of Fablehaven.. Brandon Mull!!!!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

If you're bored on the weekend in the kitchen, and you get a craving for something sweet, these would be perfect! (Especially if you don't have many ingredients.) I made mine slightly green for St. Patrick's Day----if you can tell!!

I am also posting this at Tempt My Tummy Tuesday and you can link up here:

Ingredients:

4 egg whites

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 teaspoon mint extract

or, 1 tablespoon lime juice

(I used mint for this recipe)

A dab of food coloring

( I used green for St. Patricks day)

Beat Egg whites until stiff and glossy peaks form. Beat in sugar, adding a little bit at a time. Add the flavoring ( Lime or Mint) and the food coloring. Beat at medium speed for about 20 minutes.

Heat the oven to 250 degrees. Grease, and lightly flour a cookie sheet or use parchment paper. Put mixture in a decorator tube with a size one wide tip. Push out mixture into globs that are about 1 1/2 inches wide. Bake for about 15-20 minutes, or until you see only the very first hint of browning on the top or bottom edges of the cookies. Cool the finished cookies for about 1 hour on the pan. They will only expand only a little bit, so they will not need to spaced out a lot. Make sure you beat the mixture for 20 minutes before baking, or the cookies will not turn out right! (They taste even better the next day!)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

This is my post for Alphabe-Thursday and Foodie Friday! This is a favorite of mine, they are fun to make and amazingly good and chocolatey all the way from the crumbly outside to molten gooey lava on the inside! This recipe is from my Aunt Jackie's amazing cook book!

Ingredients:

1 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips

10 tablespoons butter

3 large eggs

3 egg yolks

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup flour

Melt your chocolate chips with butter in the microwave. Stir after 1 minute. Be careful as chocolate burns easily. In another bowl, mix 3 eggs, and 3 egg yolks. Add to chocolate. Mix in powdered sugar, and flour.

Butter 6 (6 ounce) custard cups. Fill each with about 1/2 cup batter. Put on cookie sheet. Bake at 450 for about 12 1/2 minutes.(Or until the outside is crumbly, and the inside is gooey, you can use a tooth pick to see what the middle looks like.) You have to experiment with this as ovens vary.

You can either invert it onto a plate, or leave it in the ramekin. To invert, run a knife around the edges, turn it upside down on a plate. Makes about 6 cakes.

Raspberry Sauce:

Put about 1 cup raspberry jam into a bowl. Add as much powdered sugar and water that you would like, depending on how thick or runny you want it. Microwave the mixture and stir well. Serve it on top of lava cakes. We use jam because it is easy and it is good; you could also make a raspberry sauce.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

I absolutely love lotion and perfume! This lotion is from Victoria's Secret, but you can also get it at Bath and Body Works. (That's where I got mine!) I thought it would be perfect for Pink Saturday because it is called PINK!!!

Cut the skin off of your avacados. Cut up your tomato and garlic. Put them all together in the blender. Add a splash of lime juice, and a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Blend it up to a smooth paste. Add any more salt and pepper you feel is needed. You can also add more lime juice.

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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Friday nights at my house are pizza nights. So here is my pizza tablescape! I put together a more casual pizza night tablescape; my mother put together a more formal pizza night tablescape. We shared some dishware. You can link to her tablescape here:

About Me

Hi I'm Tati! I love baking and cooking! I also love the ocean, dance, and swimming. My mom, my aunt, and I all have food blogs. We are all foodies, and enjoy cooking, and eating. I hope you will enjoy viewing my blog. Thanks for visiting!